noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun:

• food boiled or stewed in soy sauce, sugar, mirin, etc. for short-term preserving - Food term

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• lifting (a child) high up in the air - children's language

noun:

• rhyme in a Chinese poem

noun:

• someone engaged in a certain pursuit; practitioner; worker; employee

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting in the open air

noun:

• dyed in various colors; dyed in various colours

expression:

• not wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord - from the Book of Rites - proverb ➜ 不倶戴天

noun / ~する noun:

• payment in advance

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

adverb:

• in haste - often used in letters, e.g. in an opening phrase

noun:

• prewar Japanese adventurer (political activist) in mainland China - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to throw in the towel

noun:

• one's rival in love

noun / ~の noun:

• in-vehicle; on-board

noun:

• language game in which extra syllables are added to words - e.g. やきもち→やしきしもしちし ➜ 入れ詞

noun:

• in-house lawyer

noun:

• New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "iru" - abbreviation ➜ 上一段活用

noun:

• opponent in a debate or argument

noun / ~する noun:

• laboring in vain or for no result; labouring in vain